Borgess Health has been nationally recognized for its healthcare network performance and integration eight times in the last decade.
Borgess is once again included in the national ranking of integrated health systems this year.
The announcement was made in the January 24, 2011 Modern Healthcare: Borgess is among the 2011 SDI Integrated Health Network (IHN) 100.
SDI rates healthcare networks on their performance level and degree of integration.
Health systems are rated in eight areas. Here are the eight along with some of the indicators used for the ratings:
- Services and Access
- Inpatient Services
- Breadth of Coverage
- Quality of Service
- Integration
- Disease Management
- Case Management
- Continuum of Care
- Pharmacy Formulary
- Physicians
- Physician Offerings
- Physician Affiliations
- Hospital Utilization
- Occupancy
- Severity adjusted length of stay
- Outpatient Utilization
- Outpatient Visits
- Integrated Technology
- Ability to Access Information from any site
- Linked Real Time to Central Medical Records
- Information Systems Integration Levels
- Financial Stability
- Long-Term Debt-to-Capitalization Ratio
- Operating Margin
- Outpatient Utilization
- Contract Capabilities
- Network-wide Managed Care Contracts
- Capitated Managed Care Contracts
- Integrated Purchasing Programs
- Network-wide Managed Care Contracts
SDI is a national leader in data analysis and healthcare information solutions.
More information on the IHN 100 is found at modernhealthcare.com (at the site, use the search term “IHN 100” to find the article). Additional analysis and details are available at sdihealth.com.
